Making our environment green is about everyone dreams, that’s them main reasons why people gathering with their efforts by collecting money in charity events or with spending their time on animal and plants conservatory. Thus this site is focusing in eagles or hawks, lets talk about it more in this articles.
About 200 years ago, hundreds of thousands of bald eagles filled the skies of North America. They were such a beautiful sight that in 1782 the species was chosen to be the national symbol for the United States. (You can see bald eagles on quarters and on dollar bills.) But starting about 100 years ago, the bald eagle ran into trouble. People were destroying lots of the birds’ habitat (the wild places the eagles need to live in). Also, many farmers and ranchers were killing eagles. (They thought the birds were killing large numbers of their farm animals, but that wasn’t true.) Then, the numbers of eagles went down further due to pollution–especially from DDT, a chemical used to kill insects on crops.
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The 2010 Latin American National Geographic Buffett Award was given to Vitor Osmar Becker and his wife Clemira Ordonez Souza, of the Instituto Uiracu in Brazil. The couple created the Serra Bonita Reserve Complex, using their savings and retirement benefits to purchase nearly 5,000 acres of threatened Atlantic Forest in Bahia, Brazil.
Becker and Souza then created the non–profit, non–government Instituto Uiracu which continues to expand the reserve and coordinate efforts to study and restore this threatened ecosystem. The name, Istituto Uiracu, is taken from the local word for the harpy eagle (Harpia Harpyja). This once common bird is now functionally extinct within the Brazilian Atlantic forest. Becker and Souza hope that the restoration and protection of the Serra Bonita mountain range might result in the return of the harpy eagle and other native wildlife.
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